Children should learn communism
See Viewpoint, page 4_
‘Slaves’ does injustice to New York
See Performance, page 7
Nick Weber, ringmaster of the Royal Lichtenstein Circus, tries to persuade the troupe’s dog to Jump through a hoop Wednesday. The circus performed on campus as part of its national tour. See story, page 8.
Seeing Eye to Eye
Volume CVIII, Number 48	University of Southern California	Thursday, March 23, 1989
KSCR backs candidates in senate race
By Kyra Phillips
Staff Writer
The university's student-run radio station held an emergency meeting Tuesday night to endorse Student Senate candidates who have pledged if elected to support KSCR funding this fall.
"We contacted every candidate to come down to see the station and to hear their platform/' said Risa Field, assistant program director. "This gave each candidate the opportunity to campaign in an open meeting and rally our support. In addition, we also granted each one an on-air interview."
Field said KSCR's concern for its survival has sparked this political activism, and its employees hope endorsement of candidates will be an annual activity.
"If the candidates support continual funding for us, then we'll support them in their campaign. We have promised to get 85 to 90 percent of our staff to vote," Field said. "We want to make sure that the people elected are supportive of KSCR."
A list of those endorsed was compiled after KSCR officials conducted individual interviews with candidates whose platforms support KSCR, Field said.
"We'll be calling our staff to vote starting tonight and handing out fliers with the ones we're endorsing tomorrow," she said Wednesday.
The KSCR staff considers this "political activism" lobbying rather than bribery.
"We're a campus organization that has an active interest in campaigning," Field said. "There's nothing wrong with that. The reason for it never taking place before now is that we're the first orga-
(See KSCR, page 6)
trojan
‘Feisty’ senior wins prestigious scholarship
English major Peter Byrnes is USC’s first to be awarded graduate Mellon Fellowship
By Rebecca Shea
Staff Writer
Peter Byrnes, a senior majoring in English, is the first university student ever to be awarded the prestigious Mellon Fellowship.
The fellowship, which grants the recipient tuition for two years of graduate school and a stipend of $11,000, is given to an academically outstanding senior planning to teach humanities on the university level, said Jack Crossley, the campus contact for the fellowship.
The fellowship is renewable for up to four years at the graduate school of the recipient's choice.
Byrnes has applied to graduate schools at Princeton University, UC Berkeley and Stanford University, but has not yet been accepted to any of them. His first choice is Stanford, he said.
Byrnes, who is taking 22 units this semester, will graduate in May, one year ahead of schedule.
"I knew that with a little craziness my last semester, I would be able to finish in three years," he said.
Bymes said he considered a double major in physics, but chose to concentrate on English because he likes literature.
"I enjoy physics, but physics was actually work," he said. "It's not like English is easy, but I love doing it.
"You can only do so much reading in a day because you can only have so much fun in one day. But it would be no imposition to do it 12 hours a day."
There is no secret to his success, Bymes said.
"The motivation is that I enjoy what I do. I do my job and I work hard at it," he said. "The greatest amount of ability in the world isn't going to do much if you don't use it."
A trustee scholar, Bymes is also a member of Mortar Board and the English Undergraduate Studies Committee, which worked to make positive changes in the deportment's curriculum, Bymes said.
"Changes were made in creative writing and the English minor, and we added a new course in American literature," he said. "I think the English department has benefited from these changes."
Bymes competed in the Sticklets College Comedy Competition as a freshman, (See Fellowship, page 12)
USC’s appeal may drop with cutback in gift aid
By Anh Do
Staff Writer
Changes in the university's financial aid policy have sparked concern about the effect that decreased aid will have on a number of students who choose to attend the university this foil.
The policy, introduced in February, uses a tiered structure to award more aid to academically superior students and ethnic minorities.
Administrators, however, said they
This is the sixth in a seven-part series on financial aid.
are uncertain about the consequences of such a method.
Some maintain that the university will attract students with high grade point averages and Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, because they are the ones who will receive the most gift aid.
"Scholarship money is being spent on students with the best scholarship," said Ann Rike, senior associate director of admissions and school relations.
Yet, as Robert Biller, acting dean of admissions and financial aid, said in a Jan. 20 memo addressed to Provost Cornelius Pings:
'It is virtually certain that the number of lower-ability students who will (See Aid, page 13)
In Brief
From the Anodated Press
STATE Driver kills bicyclist, wounds three others
GAVIOTA, Calif. — A car swerved into a group of bicyclists riding the shoulder of U.S. 101, killing one, severing the leg of another and slightly injuring two others Wednesday.
The driver was arrested under suspicion of driving drunk, police said. Gaviota is west of Santa Barbara.
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